"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." That dangly thing in the back of your throat (a.k.a. your uvula) is pretty important—it helps you swallow ...

In the case of a cleft palate, the sides don't meet up and there is a gap in the roof of the mouth.

The uvula is meant to be heard and not seen. That dangling,stalactitelike bit of pink flesh in the back of the mouth, theuvula is hidden from view, unless your mouth is wide open. However, the uvula ...

That dangly, speed-bag-looking thing at the rear of your mouth is called your palatine uvula, or just uvula for short. What’s it for? That’s a good question. People have been asking this for hundreds ...

In the second part of the two-part series, TOLUWANI ENIOLA and UMAR MUHAMMED report that apart from shunning condoms, the common practice of patronising native doctors, who perform uvulectomy with ...